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  Twitter is a muppetDecember 1, 2022

  In British slang, calling someone a muppet is a way of saying they are foolish and have about as much intelligence as a cloth puppet. When it comes to twitter’s artificial intelligence for detecting “potentially sensitive content” the label seems to fit. Here is an example of something Twitter felt needed to be hidden as […]
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  Grieving mother subjected to violent threats from trollsNovember 25, 2022

  A Queensland woman has been subjected to threats from trolls after her son died in a freak accident. OHPI’s CEO says, “Such abuse is a crime”.
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  Twitter urged to adopt IHRA definition of antisemitismNovember 18, 2022

  180 nonprofit & civil rights organisations joined to call on Elon Musk to update Twitter’s anti-hate policies by adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
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  Anti-Asian Racism in Australian Social MediaOctober 25, 2022

  This report builds on past work on anti-Asian racism in Australia and adds a particular focus on racism in social media. The new in-depth research was led by the Online Hate Prevention Institute in partnership with the Australian Human Rights Commission and Meta. The research used a mixed methods approach involving online data collection from […]
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  OHPI Presenting at Greek Government ConferenceOctober 6, 2022

  This weekend our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, will be presenting at a hybrid conference run by the Greek Government on the topic “Fighting Antisemitism and Holocaust Distortion and Denial on the Digital Battlefield”. Dr Oboler will provide the first keynote presentation in a session on “problem identification and solutions so far”, as well as presenting […]
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  Summit on Online Antisemitism in Washington DCSeptember 22, 2022

  OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, attended the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Online Antisemitism’s Summit on Washington DC.
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  Antisemitism at Adelaide UniversitySeptember 2, 2022

  The Online Hate Prevention Institute has secured the removal by Medium of an article calling for “Death to Israel” and the “abolition of Israel”. The article appeared on August 8th (2022) in the Adelaide University student magazine “On Dit Magazine” and was written by Habibah Jaghoori, a member of the editorial board of the magazine. […]